Chapter 53: Hou Liangping and Liang Lu's Wedding
In 1993, June 6st of the lunar calendar is a good day for marriage.
Today is Hou Liangping and Liang Lu’s wedding day.
Handong Huafu Hotel suspended operations for one day in order to host the wedding of Hou Liangping and Liang Lu.
At that time, the eight central regulations had not yet been issued and did not restrict the scale of weddings and funerals of party members and cadres. Liang Lu and Hou Liangping's wedding was very grand.
There were hundreds of tables for the banquet alone, and everyone came, whether they knew each other or not.
Secretary Liang's daughter is getting married. If you don't rush to flatter her now, when will you?
Not only leaders of various departments of Handong Province and some leaders of the provincial and municipal public security, procuratorial and judicial systems, but even the members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee sent representatives, as well as some faculty and staff of Handong University. It was quite lively.
Qi Tongwei greeted Gao Yuliang who was sitting in the front row, politely declined his request to stay at their table, and took Pei Qianqian to sit at his classmates' table.
There were two of his acquaintances at the table, Chen Hai and Cai Chenggong.
He felt a little guilty towards Chen Hai. After all, he had turned him into a vegetable in his previous life.
Cai Chenggong is not like that. It was his grandson who embezzled factory funds, which led to subsequent events. He paid the price for this and was rewarded with ten years of hard work.
The wedding ceremony had not yet begun. A group of people were whispering about some people and things in the unit, and Qi Tongwei did not rashly join in.
Although he once lived in the same dormitory with Hou Liangping and others, they were not classmates after all, and his relationship with them was not that close.
In addition, it was common knowledge that he had offended Liang Lu, and many people were afraid of being implicated, just like Chen Hai nodded at him and ignored him.
As the group of people were talking, the topic shifted to Hou Liangping.
"Monkey made the right move. With Teacher Liang's background, he will probably become our leader soon." The speaker was a tall, thin male student with a gentle appearance.
I don’t know whether he is envious or jealous or Yin Yang Hou Liangping.
"Yes, same person has different destinies. Having a good wife makes everything different. He joined the Provincial Anti-Corruption Bureau right after graduation. Maybe he will be promoted in less than two years!" someone agreed.
"I'd rather not have a wife like this."
"We are still lucky. There are some people who are better than us, but they have gone to remote and poor areas." He said and looked at Qi Tongwei.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at Qi Tongwei.
In fact, everyone knew that Liang Lu had her eyes on Qi Tongwei at first, and even transferred Chen Yang to Yanjing for this reason.
Originally thought that Qi Tongwei would compromise, but unexpectedly he was so stubborn that he would rather be assigned to a remote and poor area than compromise.
Everyone agreed that it was because Qi Tongwei did not agree to marry Liang Lu that Hou Liangping had the opportunity to live off her.
This is also the reason why everyone looks down on Hou Liangping. The age difference between the two is really too big. If the age difference was only four or five years, everyone might be able to understand it.
Now Liang Lu is a whole generation older than Hou Liangping. If someone insists that Hou Liangping married Liang Lu for love, no one here would believe it, probably even Liang Lu herself wouldn't believe it.
Qi Tongwei listened to the discussions of the crowd with a slight smile on his face. He guessed that this was how he was talked about in his previous life. Now that it was someone else, it sounded quite interesting.
"Tongwei, why are we here?" Pei Qianqian was in a bad mood when she heard everyone talking about Qi Tongwei.
She could imagine Qi Tongwei's helplessness at the time. An outstanding student from the countryside was assigned to a remote township with no future because of the capriciousness of the powerful.
"My dearest junior fellow is getting married, so how can I, as his senior brother, not come?" Qi Tongwei said insincerely, and only he knew his true thoughts.
At this moment, he was very relaxed and didn't take everyone's comments to heart at all.
Hou Liangping and Liang Lu's marriage means that Qi Tongwei's fate has been completely changed, and the terrible things that happened in his previous life will never happen again.
In this life, he will use his best to contribute to the country and the people, and finally truly achieve a victory over heaven and advance in the ministry in an upright manner.
The same goes for Hou Liangping, who no longer has a strong backer like the Zhong family.
Without the Zhong family, will he still act the same way as in his previous life? It's all worth looking forward to.
How could he not come at such an important moment!
Pei Qianqian was relieved to see that Qi Tongwei was not affected.
"Tongwei, why do you think Hou Liangping wanted to marry Teacher Liang, who is 12 years older than him?" Pei Qianqian also joined the gossip team.
"A girl who is 30 years old will be given gold bricks, a girl who is 30 years old will be given the country, and a girl who is 300 years old will be ranked among the immortals.
Teacher Liang is 12 years older than Hou Liangping. Although he can't become a great man, he can still become a department director. "Qi Tongwei said in a low voice with a chuckle.
"Puchi!" A girl next to her spit out saliva. Pei Qianqian grabbed Qi Tongwei's arm tightly and forced a smile, which made people around her look at her sideways.
The girl who sprayed water took a breath and said, "Senior Qi, could you please not talk so funny? You are even in the immortal class." Her brows were full of smiles as she spoke.
Qi Tongwei underestimated the power of gossiping women, and the news spread quickly.
As the witness came on stage and the wedding ceremony began, many people stared at Hou Liangping, thinking about what Qi Tongwei said.
Some smart friends have decided to make friends with Hou Liangping.
Cai Chenggong was one of them. When he thought that Hou Liangping’s father-in-law was Liang Qunfeng, he became particularly excited. It seemed that his chance to make a lot of money had come.
Hou Liangping didn't know what everyone was thinking. On the surface, he looked very happy, but he was very bitter inside.
No one would like a woman who is a year older than himself and cannot bear children, and Hou Liangping is no exception.
But he couldn't afford to offend the Liang family, and it was the Liang family who helped to get his father into trouble, so he could only marry Liang Lu home.
However, looking at the big shots who came today, Hou Liangping felt that it was not a loss. With the support of his father-in-law Liang Qunfeng, his future career will be smooth.
As for women, Hou Liangping said it would be fine to just keep one outside.
Our seemingly righteous Hou Liangping and Hou Zhengyi started thinking about keeping a mistress at their own wedding.
If Qi Tongwei knew what he was thinking, he would definitely tell him that he was overthinking it. Before he reached the department level, he could rely on the help of the Liang family, but after that, he could forget about it.
At that time, Liang Qunfeng had already retired. After all, the influence of a retired old man was limited. He could still think of ways to deal with some department-level and deputy department-level officials in low-paying government offices.
He should forget about getting a department-level or deputy department-level position in a key department or a powerful department.
Qi Tongwei was such an outstanding person, but after Liang Qunfeng retired, he just did nothing, which led to the crying at the grave incident.
Later, he had to hold on to Gao Yuliang's thigh and climbed step by step to the position of Public Security Director.
It is very difficult for Hou Liangping to replicate Qi Tongwei's path. First, he does not have Qi Tongwei's courage to give it his all. Second, he does not get support from Gao Yuliang.
For Liang Qunfeng's sake, Gao Yuliang would be kind enough not to suppress Hou Liangping after he retires. It would be a pipe dream to help him further.
No father would help a man who has bullied or hurt his daughter, unless he is an idiot.
As the host finished speaking, the wedding ceremony ended and the banquet officially began.